Literacy Strategies: Opportunities to present ideas orally. Post-reading - Demonstrate understanding. Revisit reading - reading, writing, talking. Character Sketch. Telling stories.


Create a Video About Cricket in Times Square


Create a 1 1/2 minute video about the story.
You may create "paper slides" and record a narration - like this:
http://www.schooltube.com/video/6c0a0565ea902c4df9ac/

Create a trailer for the book. Just give enough information to get others interested in reading it - like this:

Make connections between your life and the book - like this:
http://goanimate.com/videos/0cRxgbkltDoQ


Use this rubric to guide your work:

http://www.rjfisher.lgusd.k12.ca.us/staff/sgage/documents/RubricMovieTrailer.pdf




Create a Podcast


Or, you can create an audio clip that persuades others to read the book:

Use this rubric to guide your work:

http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/podcastrubric.html


When you are finished, we will post your video to TeacherTube. Then you can embed the video on to your team page.